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Hew is a personal-blogging theme with a distinct identity and a bright splash of colour. Share your thoughts and experiences with readers while connecting through prominently placed social media links. Hew Designed by yours truly, Hew puts your content in the spotlight. With its single column and bold typography, Hew offers a pleasant reading experience across all devices…
A December 2014 addition to our library of themes, Radcliffe stands out with elegant yet modern fonts, large featured images, and clean navigation that gets out of the way and puts your content front and center. Radcliffe looks great right out of the gate, but it’s also got beautiful bones. These five bloggers have five very…
1. lscpu The lscpu command reports information about the cpu and processing units. It does not have any further options or functionality. 2. lshw – List Hardware A general purpose utility, that reports detailed and brief information about multiple different hardware units such as cpu, memory, disk, usb controllers, network adapters etc. Lshw extracts the…
Andrew Youderian • February 13, 2015 Ben Jenkins is a collection of conflicting stereotypes. He’s a retired baseball player with a degree from the Art Institute in Chicago. He’s a southern gentleman who occasionally cusses. He loves to smoke a pipe but is a total health nut. He’s intimidatingly cool, but just wants to hang…
SPINX Digital is happy to announce that our work with law firm, Quinn Emanuel has earned multiple Best-in-Class awards in web design from the Interactive Media Awards (IMA) committee. Nabbing top honors in both the ‘Legal’ and ‘Professional Services’ categories, the judges for the IMA awarded us an overall score of 496 out of a…
In the past, we’ve highlighted some of our favorite themes for longform enthusiasts and bloggers who just want to write. Today, let’s take a look at five free themes, launched in the past several months, that offer a distraction-free writing and reading experience. Radcliffe Radcliffe combines bold typography with a clutter-free post layout, as shown…
We all assume that just about everyone uses social media, but the actual statistics are staggering. According to recent research, 74% of internet users participate in social media in one way or another. In other words, if your business isn’t social, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity to reach your audience. Read moreInstalling and…
It is with great excitement that I announce the opening of ticket sales for the Press Publish conference series we teased here earlier this month! After scouring the web for bloggers with inspiring stories, successful blogs, and unique voices, we’ve confirmed the speaker lineups, and are thrilled to be including popular WordPress.com bloggers like Katherine Fritz, Jerry Mahoney, Emily Austin,…
Andrew Youderian • January 30, 2015 Jimmy Hayes, co-founder of Minaal, has the travel bug bad. It started innocently enough when, while on university exchange in Vancouver, he and his friend Doug Barber bought a Plymouth Grand Voyager van and drove 18,000 miles around North America. Little did they know it then, but their shared…
Update: Google Analytics settings are now available from My Sites ? Tools ? Marketing ? Traffic. You can use Google Analytics on your site with a Premium plan or above. The Stats on WordPress.com are a special favorite of many site owners — it’s our second-most visited screen. At a glance, you can see when you…
Our default theme this year, Twenty Fifteen, draws visitors’ eyes to what matters most — the text and images you publish on your site. Crisp typography, generous spacing, streamlined navigation: Twenty Fifteen shows that less can indeed be more (and that it can look great on any device). Keeping things simple and streamlined doesn’t mean you can’t make…
While doing some work on migrating accounts to a new server, I needed to use rsync over ssh. The ssh daemon on the remote server runs on a non-standard port, and all the port related options to rsync only change settings if you’re running the rsync-daemon. After some searching, the man page of rsync offered…
Rsync (Remote Sync) is a most commonly used command for copying and synchronizing files and directories remotely as well as locally in Linux/Unix systems. With the help of rsync command you can copy and synchronize your data remotely and locally across directories, across disks and networks, perform data backups and mirroring between two Linux machines….
If you’ve been tuning in to Hot Off the Press, you’ll know about recent updates to the WordPress.com interface along with some fantastic technical upgrades. To continue the momentum, we’ve introduced more interactive and robust notifications throughout WordPress.com. (Coming soon to a Jetpack blog near you.) Keep an eye on the new interface and let us…
Andrew Youderian • January 16, 2015 In my last post, I talked about why I’m investing heavily in a new website and how to prepare for a complete redesign of your store. In this post, I want to take you inside our website migration process for going from theoretical concept to a shiny, non-botched live new store. This…
It’s Theme Thursday and today I’m happy to present two new free themes: Cubic and Wilson. Cubic Designed by WordPress.com’s own Thomas Guillot, Cubic is a clean, simple, and responsive theme. Read moreHow To Create a Multilingual Online Store with WordPress With its single-column, grid-based design crafted around large featured images, Cubic is the perfect…
It’s in the grip of North American winter that I often dream of escape to warmer climates. Thanks to the WordPress.com Reader and the street photography tag, I can satisfy my travel yen whenever it strikes. Here are just some of the amazing photos and photographers I stumbled upon during a recent armchair trip. My…
As any designer will tell you, logos are easy to screw up. Sure, they may look easy. After all, it’s just an image, right? And images are just glorified doodles. They create themselves! If only it were that easy. Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp CloudDespite how it may seem, great logos are deceptively simple….
We’re celebrating the New Year with two free themes: Boardwalk and Sela. Boardwalk Designed by yours truly, Boardwalk is a clean, simple, and responsive theme. Read moreHow To Create a Multilingual Online Store with WordPress Powered with horizontal scrolling and built around large featured images, Boardwalk is the perfect choice for photobloggers and those of you looking…
Millions of new sites created and posts published later, 2014 is in the books. We could regale you with big numbers, like these… Total New Blogs 18,300,771 That’s 49,997 new blogs per day! Total Posts 555,782,547 Or more than 1.5 million per day — not too shabby. 47 million were published from mobile devices, because you’re on the go….